"The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do."

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Source : "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

David Plotz

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Just Being Quotes

“Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.”

Source : Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s”
“Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.”
“The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.”
“Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.”
“It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.”
“Iâ€™m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and Iâ€™m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyoneâ€™s life has been hard enough already itâ€™s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyoneâ€™s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I donâ€™t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered thereâ€™s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.”
“Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

Source : Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.321, Hachette UK

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